Gaudy CGI and zero content

Rating: 4/10 (30 November 2013)

Pacific Rim is an over the top film when the subject is and only is the special effects. It seems clear to me that it has a guaranteed Oscar nomination for the art direction achievement,and probably for Special Effects as well. However, in the other aspects, this film is just awful. If i gave a 4/10 score to this film, is all due to the technical aspects, i must say.
The plot is hilariously bad constructed, and its first 20 minutes or so is one of the worst introductions to a film that i've ever watched. It spends this initial minutes with flashbacks which suddenly pops out and disappears, what is a clearly attempt of director Guillermo del Toro like of doing an economy of time to a possible very long but much likely most coherent and entertaining development. It also seems clear that if the producers of this film had some decency and weren't planning to just make a fast money over a relatively short attention span audience, they would give a decent development to Pacific Rim in a prequel film.
Because dawn, the character development is bad. I couldn't care for the character that were in the screen, honestly. This was the main factor of why some people like me really didn't like this film. It don't assumes any compromises with the viewer, it don't involves the viewer. It just expect the viewer to sit and watch two hours of good special effects, without any plot or whats ever. It's really a shame.
Even the so- called 'Super Hero' blockbusters puts effort in making a watchable film with an acceptable plot. So as you see, it is a very inferior film even for the popcorn flicks standards nowadays.
I usually claim the films that uses much more the visual aspects instead of storytelling to be 'style over substance' kinds of films. But this one would be just style, since there is no substance or whatever to save it.
Not recommended. 4.5/10